Originally posted by 水兒 at 2006-9-3 10:11 PM: 【請勿以回覆範本增刪字句回覆，一貼走天下，亦為灌水行為，您有vip頭銜
應該是愛護論壇環境的網友，盼能身為表率】
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[ Last edited by wwtttdy on 2006-9-5 at 01:11 AM ]作者: 澄澄 時間: 2006-9-5 06:03 PM
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Originally posted by wwtttdy at 2006-9-5 01:06 AM:
話說在一個不透明的箱子裡有一隻貓，箱子裡還有一些放射性物質和一瓶盛有巨毒物的小玻璃瓶。放射物的原子發生衰變時，信號會觸發一把事先放好的鐵錘，鐵錘會咂破玻璃瓶，然後揮發出來的氧化物將貓殺死。如果有人好奇打開箱子觀察貓會死。不打開的話貓就不會死~
最早出現於1589年英國劇作家Ben Johnson所寫的一齣戲中：
Helter skelter, hang sorrow, care will kill a cat, up-tails all, and a pox on the hangman.
(care在當時的意思為"sorrow"或"worry")
後來在莎士比亞的戲劇(Much Ado about Nothing無事自擾)中將此話加以發揮：
What, courage man! what though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.
這個諺語一直到1898年E. Cobham Brewer 將它收錄到字典中,定義為：
Care killed the Cat. It is said that "a cat has nine lives," yet care would wear them all out.
(字面的解釋為據說貓有九條命,但即使如此擔憂太多仍會把他們累死的)
真正把care改成curiosity是在1909年 O. Henry的一篇短篇小說Schools and Schools :
Curiosity can do more things than kill a cat; and if emotions, well recognized as feminine, are inimical to feline life, then jealousy would soon leave the whole world catless.
